PLANKTON IN NORTH
Concentration Near Wailii (N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Jan. 17. Huge patches of jelly-like globules floating in river estuaries near Little Waihi beach and Maketu in the Bay of Plenty this week have been tentatively identified as salps—a type of plankton. The globules were so thick that swimmers could feel them in the water. Professor J. E. Morton, of the zoology department at Auckland University, said tonight that from the description the globules seemed to be salps. They were similar to the sea squirt. They pulsated like small muscular barrels taking in water at one end and ejecting it from the other.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29724, 18 January 1962, Page 15
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